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Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

Scythestone :: Scythestone (n.) A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

Whittle :: Whittle (v. t.) To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate..

Spiculate :: Spiculate (v. t.) To sharpen to a point.

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make sharp.

Knife-edge :: Knife-edge (n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction..

Grind :: Grind (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction..

Whet :: Whet (v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife..

Hone :: Hone (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone..

Sharpening :: Sharpening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharpe.

Sharpen :: Sharpen (v. i.) To grow or become sharp.

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of sharpening.

Hone :: Hone (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Whetstone :: Whetstone (n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools..

Sharp :: Sharp (v. t.) To sharpen.

Acumination :: Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

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